What do we mean when we say ‘better data’?
Statistics play an important role in improving human lives, not least through helping to identify…
Maitha Al Junaibi and Karl Royce AshworthDecember 1, 2015
Angus Deaton: a statistician’s economist
Illustration: © Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesA few years ago, former World Bank…
Syrian chemical warfare and Obama welfare cuts: measurement, retirement and war
A recent New York Times article stated that U.S. officials believe the Syrian government has…
Michael A. LewisApril 29, 2013
Odd Statistical Snippet of the week: Voltaire and the statistician who won the lottery and proved that the earth is not round
I was listening with half an ear (as one does) to Melvyn Bragg’s academic-intellectual-historical-philosophical-scientific educate-us-all-in-things-that-every-civilised-person-ought-to-know-but-probably-doesn’t…
Julian ChampkinMay 4, 2012
